A very fun episode.
In this episode Gorilla Grodd intends to take over Gorilla City with the help of the rest of the Legion of Doom. However the leader of the city escapes and contacts the Super Friends for help. The Super Friends must stop the Legion of Doom before they use their conquest of Gorilla City to take over the world.
This episode is full of corny silver age fun and works as a great example of why I love this type of silly superhero fun. The episode rather than underplaying or making fun of the silliness of the plot, instead embraces it. Because of this I found it very easy to get caught up in the fun of the story. It doesn't hurt that the action scenes here are a lot of fun and with the heroes losing their powers there becomes a real sense of suspense here. This action scenes are also very well staged and with some well done twists on the average Super Friends action scenes feel quite unique to this episode. Even with a large army of gorillas here as well, this episode does a great job giving nearly every Super Friend a time to shine. This episode is also filled with the type of corny superhero dialogue I love. In fact Robin gets one of his finest holy-isms here, "holy guerilla warfare." Gorilla City also is a perfect setting for a Super Friends adventure and has a real sense of atmosphere to it as well as boasting some more great Hanna-Barbera background art.
All in all this is just a delight of an episode.
Upon its original airing this episode was paired with The New Super Friends episode, The Anti-Matter Monster (1978).
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